Expressions of interest are sought from UK/EU students for one PhD
scholarship within:
*Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment*
*3 years full-time fees will be paid by the University*
*Deadline: The closing date for applications is 15th February 2016*
*Interview date: Interviews will be held in week beginning 1st March 2016*
*School of Arts*
*Bursary: £7,000 pa (with no inflation increase).*
*Eligibility: Home/EU*
*Start date: April 2016 (at the latest)*
The Film Studies unit within the School of Arts at Oxford Brookes
University is pleased to offer a three year full-time PhD studentship
commencing in September 2016. The successful applicant will receive an
annual bursary of £7,000 for three years (with no inflation increase), and
fees will be paid by the University. The candidate will need to demonstrate
that in addition to the studentship other funding is available for them to
successfully complete the programme in full-time study.
*Area of research: New Cinema History: Reconstructing film culture through
memories, cinema-going practices and film consumption*
Since the mid-1980s, cinema historians have insisted on the importance of
researching the distribution, exploitation and reception of film, instead
of solely concentrating on its production context. This research strand -
now defined as New Cinema History (Maltby, Stokes & Allen 2007; Maltby,
Biltereyst & Meers 2011) - has greatly enhanced and expanded the field of
cinema studies as it acknowledges the diversity in film production,
distribution, exhibition, but above all the overtly ignored cinema
audiences. New Cinema History envisions a social history of a cultural
institute aimed to identify film as a cultural artifact consumed by a
variety of audiences. Using socio-economic, ethnographic and other methods,
New Cinema History has underlined the heterogeneity of cinema cultures and
the influence of the social, cultural and historical conditions such as
region, class, race and ideology. In order to engage with cinema cultures
in their social, historical and cultural context of everyday life, scholars
left the field of broad generalizations and large quantitative research
designs to focus on close, detailed studies of specific places, people and
chronologies.
The aim of the research is to tap into one of the unexplored film practices
looking at a specific European case study from the post-war period to the
present. The project can be fully inscribed into the Arts and Media sector,
but through its analysis, is tangent to other social and scientific fields
such as: social science, tourism, anthropology, geography and cultural
heritage studies.
The research proposal should aim:
1. To uncover aspects of film culture (cinema-going practices, exhibition
and distribution strategies, etc.) taking one or some European countries as
case-studies for the investigation
2. To explore the audiences’ point of view by collecting oral evidence, as
well as questionnaires, audience-focus groups and interviews
3. To make use of creative methodologies (geographical, anthropological,
statistical, etc.) in order to to understand the manner in which film texts
are embedded in the wider social histories of popular entertainment,
consumption, and domestic leisure.
*How to apply: *
*Please request an application pack from Ms Anna Guarnieri *
*[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>*
*q**uoting ‘New Cinema History’ in the subject line.*
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Dr Daniela Treveri Gennari
Reader in Film Studies
School of Arts
Oxford Brookes University
Headington Hill Campus
Oxford OX3 0BP
Tel. 01865-483460
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*http://www.italiancinemaaudiences.org/
<http://www.italiancinemaaudiences.org/>*
*Moralizing cinema: Film Catholicism and Power* (eds. by Daniel Biltereyst
and Daniela Treveri Gennari) Routledge (New York) December 2014. h
ttp://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415712644/
<http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415712644/>
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